Page 2, Wednesday, August 25th, 1971, WHITBY FREE PRESS ...And Now Our Postal Services - another bld for Oshawa-takeover First, railway express service - now an impending threat for the removal of an integrent portion of Whitby postal services. 'Whatnext?', our represen- tatives at the municipal building must surely be asking. An d so f o r t h e second time this m on t h, Mayor Desmond Newman has had t o appoint a special commi ttee to p r o t e c t t he interests of the County Town. Mission of both conmittees is to keep vital Whitby services such as r a i I w ay express and postal process from going east to Oshawa. Frustrating indeed it must be for the mayor and his council, who, des- p i te I oc a I zoning aggravations and o t h er c omplaints here at home, are when 'the chips are down', behinu the County Town. Railway Officials proposed shut-down of Whitby depot O n Mo n d a y, August 9th, Mr. C. Br o a d, Regional Manager of North- eastern Ontario for Canadian Pacific Express, appeared at council to pro- pose a shut-down of the C. P. Whi tby d e p o t , c harging hi s proposal as "a matter of economics". Gordon Ell1sion, head of CP Oshawa Express, b a ck e d his superior, Mr. Broad, in saying that the elimination of th e Whitby office w as strictly an economic move, and that it was stan- dard CPpolicy to central ize offices to provide for efficiency, lower costs and less handling. The CP representatives, of couose, favouredOshawaas the ideal central- ization point, and in a lengthy discus- sion, during which it was discovered that Mr. Broad, who was certain that traffic flow coul d be handled much bet- ter from Oshawa 'just because', was not equal ly as certain of the population of the Town of Whitby. Council decided to strongly oppose the move of the express service from W h i t b y t o Oshawa, and appointed a c o m m i t t e e at their regul ar Monday ,night meeting. This matter was barely disposed of when just one week later on Monday, AugLu1 6th, another deputation-from- Oshawa headedby R.B. Chessum, r Sirs; Wt orep On behalf of OdJbmly W hi tby Youth- mn a bet power , Ilwoul dîIike paeaude ta t h a n k y ou for mmesit m y our suppor t dur- - lyettruh i ng ho smmor ou theWhitur help, (Vooc loymteCnt though- Hornetown paper of Whitby, Brooklin, Myrtle. & Ashburn Eastern area Manager for the Central Ontario Postal District, came-a-shop- ping to "feel council out" on the feasi- bility of consolidatingVWhitby and Osh- awa mail processing. ..sorting would go to Oshawa This move, which would maintain satisfactory mail service, improve the make-up and processing of mail, and improve the distribution of mails gen- erally, will be presented in a report madebyMr. Chessum to his superiors in Toronto. When ail the cards were on the table, council learned that the consol- idation would require the removal of the processing of all incoming and outgoing mail to the Oshawa Post Office, which would in turn, according to the postal representatives, "improve sorting and free costly floor space in the Whitby pos t off i ce. Although Mr. Chessum stated that front wicket letter carrier delivery, parcel post and rural route services w i I l remain as is now at the Whitby office, he added that there would be, due to a reduction in the administrative vvorkload, a decrease in versontiel. "Consultation will be held with the res- pective unions involved regarding these decreases", he said. Chessum explanation ambiguous Mr. Chessum's explanatory address b r o u g h t a questioning Deputy Reeve Goodwin to the floor. "After the sort- in g goes, then what ?H, he asked the division manager. Mr. Chessum explained that future moves were not presently accounted in the report he will be forwarding to his superior. Mayor Desmond Newman, whose re- peated explorations in trying to deter- mine if council's positionon the matter w oul1 d have any meaningful effect on Mr. Chessum's report told him: "I am prepared to si t here till I a. m. if you insist on playing this game."I It was finally determined that coun- cil 's attitude and comments would be in- ci u de d in the report, but the report would be submitted to Toronto before council could see it. munity. Up to this point in the summer there has been on the average of five jobs per day. We .appr e c i ate your concern for Youth Employment. This y'ar, Odd- job Employment has been tenta- t ively planned to continue through the winter, so if you are up ta your nec k in snow, or need a babysitter in ahurry, we can come to your res- cue. We would app- r e ci a te it if you passed the word along to your friends. Sincerely, 'Ah i tby Youth- powor. i j j ie ..report divides community It was pointed out to Mr. Chessum t h a t his s t u d y, in reality, covered only the former town and rural routes south of the fourth concession rather than the entire amalgamated to,'n, and was, therefore, dividing the munici- pal ity. Co un c il1l1 or Robert Attersley, a leadingvoice during the entire debate said he could not understand why the post office needed to free costly floor space when the basement of the Whi tby office was not being utilized. "May 1 suggest a new post office to serve both the north and south, and not spi it the municipality?II, he suggested. IlIt is not being recommended to have a new pos t office, "answered Chessum. During the hour-and-a-half sess- i o n , i t was expressed b y council on the whole, that they could not under- stand how service could be improved if local Whitby letters were first posted in the town, sent to Oshawa to be pro- cessed, and then sent back to Whitby for delivery. "This municipality has a projected population larger than the City of Osh- a w a i n the next twenty-five years", said Mayor Newman. "I can't see how a s tu dy can take in only part of the municipality. " "I havevery littlesympathy with the kind of s tu dy being proposed. I have f a i I e d to el icit any real opportunity from you for consultation. I ltwaswith visible satisfaction that Deputy Reeve Goodwin, who had spent considerable time in re-wording his o r i g inal motion, recommended t h a t council notify postal department Tor- onto headquarters strongly opposing the proposed consolidation of Oshawa W h i t b y m ail processing, and of the deterioration of existing services. 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